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| Graybeard Longhunter |
Posted - July 14 2004 : 11:19:37 AM
The man who told this story lived in a small cabin on the south slope of Pine Mountain in Southeast Kentucky. He had heard the story years before.
Once there was a man out hunting and he got lost and after a while he begin to get hungry. He come to a big hole in the ground and he thought he would venture down into it. He went down in there and he found that the old Yeahoh lived in there and had deer meat hanging up and other foods piled around the walls. The man was afraid at first but Yeahoh didn't bother him and he went toward the meat with his knife to get him some. The Yeahoh walked over and looked at the knife and said, "Yeahoh, Yeahoh," a time or two. The man cut off a piece of the meat for it and it started eating.
Well the man stepped over to the middle of the pit and took out his flint and built him up a fire. And the Yeahoh watched him and looked at the fire and at the flint and said, "Yeahoh, Yeahoh" again. The man put his meat on a stick and broiled him a nice piece and started eating it. The Yeahoh watched him and acted like it wanted a piece. The man cut it off a piece of the broiled meat and reached it over and the Yeahoh commenced to eating it up and smacking its lips and saying, "Yeahoh, Yeahoh."
Well the man lived there with it a long time and they got along all right. After so long they was a youngun born to them and it was half-man and half-Yeahoh. And the Yeahoh took such a liking to the man it wouldn't let him leave. He got to wanting to get away and go back home. One day he slipped off and the Yeahoh followed him and made him go back. Went on that way for a good while but he picked him a good time and slipped away. This time he got to the shore where they was a ship ready to set sail. He got on this ship and he looked and saw the Yeahoh coming with the youngun. It screamed and hollered for him to come back and when it saw he wasn't going to come, why it just tore the baby in two and held it out one-half to him and said, "Yeahoh, Yeahoh". He sailed on off and left it standing there.
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| blueotter |
Posted - September 12 2004 : 7:21:10 PM
Hey, I know it's a long time after the last post on this topic, but I have a friend who grew up -- and still lives -- in Southwestern Ohio near a wooded area owned by a large corporation. This area was pretty much unused by anyone for as long as he could remember, even before the corporation bought it. As a boy had a personal run-in with a large, hairy being that liked to be left alone. My friend liked to hunt in those woods, and he knew without a doubt that the being wanted him gone. He would throw rocks off a high ledge at him, though he would never venture any nearer than that. My friend is not one to make up stories about his personal experiences, so I tend to believe him. And I agree that "the world is a far more fun place because of the 'unexplained'", Sgt. Munro.
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| SgtMunro |
Posted - July 16 2004 : 11:39:32 AM
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These facts fuel speculation that the legend of the Yeahoh actually arose from Boone's retelling of the Swift saga possibly as part of his own exploits throughout the American frontier.
Maybe so, but there were more than enough tales of 'wild men' in the world, long before Swift's time. Creatures like the Wendingo of Canada, the Yowie of Australia and the Woodwoes of the United Kingdom & Ireland; all share the same traits as the Bigfoot or Sasquatch. In some native cultures, these legendary creatures share spiritual/magical properties. For instance, the Australlian 'Yowie' is believed by some aborigonies to be a 'guide' of the dreamworld. It does make for interesting insight into other cultural beliefs...
Your Most Humble Servant,
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| Graybeard Longhunter |
Posted - July 16 2004 : 09:25:14 AM
In John Mack Faragher's biography of Daniel Boone, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (Faragher 1992), Faragher claims that Boone told "tall tales" about "killing a ten-foot, hairy giant he called a 'Yahoo.'"
The Yahoos were large, hairy, man-like creatures described in Jonathan Swift's classic of satire and irony Gulliver's Travels (see the chapter "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms").
And Faragher also details Daniel Boone's familiarity with Gulliver's Travels. In fact, Faragher states the book was one of Boone's favorites and that Boone frequently carried the book with him into the woods.
These facts fuel speculation that the legend of the Yeahoh actually arose from Boone's retelling of the Swift saga possibly as part of his own exploits throughout the American frontier.
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| SgtMunro |
Posted - July 16 2004 : 12:48:07 AM
I checked out your link, it is some good stuff. Funny thing about American 'folk tales', is that they usually have their roots in those that were here long before the first Europeans stepped off the boat. If you take the tales of say, the Shawnee, and mix them with European folklore, you come up with some very good stories.
Now, I know that I refer to them as 'folk tales', but that does not mean that there is not some factual information within. Just because I have never seen a bigfoot, does not mean that one does not exist. Personally, I like to believe that they do, since the world is a far more fun place because of the 'unexplained'.
Your Most Humble Servant,
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| Graybeard Longhunter |
Posted - July 15 2004 : 09:53:35 AM
Thank you Sgt Munro.
Another version of the same tale is called The Hairy Woman.
The tale of The Hairy Woman is the same story except the man was tired and lost. Found the cave. The creature came in. Started eating some chestnuts. They shared a meal. Some sort of relationship grew. In this version there were others of its kind around. The man build a boat, not a ship. Same type of escape.
These stories were collected from people in an isolated area of the Kentucky mountains in the late 1940's and early 1950's and thus the Yeahoh became a Kentucky bigfoot legend.
Perhaps the lesson to be learned here is not to stay in the cave too long. 
Website at http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/legends/yeahoh.htm
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| SgtMunro |
Posted - July 15 2004 : 07:27:16 AM
A very interesting story Mr. Longhunter. I recall a similar tale mentioned in a book by Loren Coleman on Mesoamerica. I believe that the story shares its roots in several Eastern Native tribes, like the Lenape and Iroquios.
Your Most Humble Servant,
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